Environmental justice and urban resilience in the Global South / Adriana Allen, Liza Griffin, Cassidy Johnson, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Environmental justice and resilience in the urban global south: an emerging agenda / Liza Griffin, Deena Khalil, Adriana Allen and Cassidy Johnson -- Part I. The institutional governance of resilience and environmentally just practice. 2. Top-down, bottom-up and beyond: governance perspectives on urban resilience and environmental justice in the People's Republic of China / Linda Westman -- 3. Planning for mobility and socio-environmental justice: the case of Medellin, Colombia / Caren Levy and Julio D. Dávila -- 4. Institutional discourses on urban water poverty, considering the example of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: reconciling justice and resilience? / Pascale Hofmann -- 5. Post-disaster institutional and community responses: uneven outcomes on environmental justice and resilience in Chaitén, Chile / Vicente Sandoval, Claudia Gonzalez-Muzzio and Cristian Albornoz -- Part II. Everyday practices: informal or bottom-up attempts to achieve resilience and environmental justice. 6. Justice, resilience and illegality: energy vulnerability in Romani settlements in Bulgaria / Rosalina Babourkova -- 7. The resilient agrocity metabolism: evidence from the neighbourhoods of Dondo, Mozambique / Céline F. Veríssimo -- 8. Pathways towards the resilient city: presupposition of equality and active justice in Bangkok, Thailand / Camillo Boano -- 9. Adaptability of the built environment of informal settlements to increase climate resilience in Dhaka, Bangladesh / Huraera Jabeen -- Part III. Co-produced governance. 10. The Co-production of water justice in Latin American cities / Adriana Allen, Anna Walnycki and Étienne von Bertrab -- 11. Building community resilience to recurrent flooding: field experience from the 2012 Assam Floods, India / Sneha Krishnan -- 12. Floods and food in the city: lessons from collaborative governance within the policy network on urban agriculture in Bangkok, Thailand / Piyapong Boossabong -- 13. Mapping the contradictions: an examination of the relationship between resilience and environmental justice / Rita Lambert and Adriana Allen -- 14. Urban infrastructure and energy poverty in Maputo, Mozambique / Diana Salazar, Vanesa Castán Broto and Kevin Adams -- 15. Urban resilience and justice: exploring the tensions, building upon the connections / Adriana Allen, Cassidy Johnson, Deena Khalil and Liza Griffin.

This edited volume provides a fresh perspective on the important yet often neglected relationship between environmental justice and urban resilience. Many scholars have argued that resilient cities are more just cities. But what if the process of increasing the resilience of the city as a whole happens at the expense of the rights of certain groups? If urban resilience focuses on the degree to which cities are able to reorganise in creative ways and adapt to shocks, do pervasive inequalities in access to environmental services have an effect on this ability? This book brings together an interdisciplinary and intergeneration group of scholars to examine the contradictions and tensions that develop as they play out in cities of the Global South through a series of empirically grounded case studies spanning cities of Asia, Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe.